Tuesday, August 20, 2013

Marriages (August 20)

At high noon Wednesday, Feb. 3d, a small party of near relatives and friends gathered at the home of Urias Pearsall to witness the joining together in the hands of matrimony of his daughter, Lottie B., and Mr. Fred Davis.  Rev. J.H. Littell of Otego performed the ceremony.  Miss Hattie Chase of Masonville, acted as bridesmaid, and Laverne Pearsall, brother of the bride, as groomsman.  Following the ceremony was a wedding dinner, after which they were driven to Afton, where they took the train for Binghamton accompanied by a party of friends.  The many useful and handsome presents received by the couple testified to the high esteem in which they are held.  [Notation:  1897]
 
A party of about 20 gathered at the home of C.E. Holdredge on the Yaleville road Wednesday evening to witness the marriage of his daughter May to Arthur D. Bryant.  The ceremony was performed at 8 o'clock by Rev. E. Kilpatrick.  A bountiful supper was then served, and the guests were pleasantly entertained for a few hours.  Mr. and Mrs. A.D. Bryant received the hearty congratulations of all as the party assembled left for their homes, and many useful and beautiful presents were left as mementoes of the occasion.  [Notation:  1897]

A simple, unostentatious wedding will take place this afternoon at 5 o'clock in the Presbyterian church in Bainbridge [Chenango Co., NY], yet one that will afford no ordinary interest.  The contracting parties are Rev. Arthur Spaulding, the pastor of the church, and Miss Lena C. Tinkham, the organist.  The Christian Endeavor society, choir and the many friends of the bride and groom, have trimmed the church prettily, arranging the palms, Easter lilies, carnations and plants in jars with a beautiful effect.  The Rev. D.N. Grummon of Binghamton, a former pastor of the church here, will perform the ceremony, Rev. H.W. Chollar of Stillwater, N.Y., a former pastor of the Baptist church in Bainbridge, will act as best man, and Miss Grace Perry of this village will be the maid of honor.  The ushers are Messrs. William Fletcher, William Hovey, Archibald Gilbert and Louis Lindgren.  Miss Luzanne Weismer of Unadilla, will render Wagner's bridal march upon the organ, playing softly through the entire service.  Miss Tinkham will be married in her traveling dress, a very becoming suit of brown, with hat to match, and Miss Perry will wear a costume of light green.  There is to be no reception at the home, the married couple leaving upon the evening train to spend a week at Watkins Glen.  Miss Tinkham is the eldest daughter of S.C. Tinkham, is a graduate of the Bainbridge academy, class '94, and has been a member of the school faculty two years.  She is popular in society, a fine musician and every way adapted to fill the duties of a clergyman's wife.  Mr. Spaulding is from Princeton University and has been in our midst over a year, commencing his first pastorate in Bainbridge.  He is a young preacher of worth, of genial, cordial manners and has a host of friends in his church and out of it.  Many congratulations from the Republican.  [Notation:  1897]

At 8 o'clock on the evening of December 26, a very pretty wedding was solemnized in the Church of the Good Shephard, Binghamton [Broome Co., NY], when Miss Dorothy Edwards, of 242 Vestal avenue, Binghamton, became the bride of Sergeant John F. Shaffer, formerly of Bainbridge [Chenango Co., NY].  After the ceremony, a reception was held at the home of the bride's mother.  The bride wore a white satin gown with a long illusion veil and carried a bouquet of white rosebuds and baby's breath.  Her attendant wore cadet blue taffeta and carried a bouquet of pink rosebuds....[Bainbridge News,  Jan. 2, 1941]

A very pretty home wedding took place Saturday evening, December 28, at 8:30 o'clock at the home of Mr. and Mrs. George Lockwood, of Nineveh Junction [Broome Co., NY], when their elder daughter, Miss Edna Martha, became the bride of George Charles Hanson, son of Jason R. Hanson, of Oneonta [Otsego Co., NY].  To the strains of Lohengrin's Wedding March, played by Mrs. Raymond Lockwood, sister-in-law of the bride, the bridal party entered the living room and took their places under the colonnade which was trimmed with evergreen and bittersweet mingled with silver bells and icicles.  The couple were attended by Miss Iva Lockwood, sister of the bride, and Vernon Hanson, brother of the bridegroom.  The bride wore a beautiful gown of royal blue chiffon velvet, with corsage of white bride's roses.  The maid of honor was gowned in dusty blue pebble crepe with corsage of deep pink rosebuds.  The bridegroom was attired in uniform.  Following the ceremony the bridal party and guests assembled in the dining room, which was tastily decorated in a color scheme of pink and white.  A large bride's cake graced the center of the table, with a runner of pink through the center of the white cloth, on each side crystal candlesticks with pink tapers.  The favors were pink and white baskets of mints which also served as place cards.  The bride is a graduate of Afton High School, class of 1933.  She is employed at the American Plastics Corp., at Bainbridge.  The bridegroom, Corporal George C. Hanson, of Oneonta National Guard, Company G, 106 Infantry, 27 Division, is at present Stationed at Fort McClelland, Ala.  [Bainbridge News, Jan. 2, 1941]

Nettie B. Secord, of Franklin [Delaware Co., NY], daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Hillard Boggs, was united in marriage to Marshall Moore, of Bainbridge [Chenango Co., NY], son of Hiram Moore, Friday, December 13, 1940 in the parsonage of the Methodist Episcopal Church, Franklin.  The Rev. S.E. Sargeant performed the ceremony.  The couple was attended by the bridegroom's sister and husband, Mr. and Mrs. Roland VanTassel, of Sidney.  The bride was attired in a street length dress of soldier blue with black accessories.  Mrs. Moore is a graduate of Franklin High School and Mr. Moore attended Bainbridge High School.  Both are employed at the Scintilla Magneto Co. Sidney.  They are residing on bridge street, Unadilla.  [Bainbridge News, Jan. 2, 1941]

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